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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

April 5, 1993Polk County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 1993, 4:11 AM EDT for Polk County, Florida. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 1993, 4:11 AM EDT (08:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 1993, 5:00 AM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Polk County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -234 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 5, 4:03 AM EDT, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 2:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Charlotte, Sarasota	33 min
Apr 5, 2:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Manatee	33 min
Apr 5, 3:24 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Hardee	51 min
Apr 5, 3:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TBW	Highlands, Polk	61 min
Apr 5, 3:55 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TBW	Highlands	65 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.